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EMTALA presents numerous challenges to midwives who work in the obstetric triage setting. It is crucial for midwives performing obstetric triage to understand their duties under this federal law ...

Mrs R initiated an action against the hospital for alleged violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). She asserted that the hospital did not provide proper ...

including directives to limit EMTALA’s protections, including by “withdrawing the Biden Administration’s July 2022 guidance on EMTALA’s preemption of state-level abortion bans, ending ...

Specifically: The parties dispute whether EMTALA requires hospitals to provide abortions-or any other treatment forbidden by state law-as necessary stabilizing care. They also disagree about ...

EMTALA, in other words, sets funding restrictions on hospitals that choose to receive federal funds. It does not establish a general federal obligation, independent of acceptance of funding ...

In the wake of the Dobbs decision last year, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a preliminary junction to temporarily block federal government guidance that says the ...